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MAHWAH, N.J. – An unlicensed driver who got onto southbound Route 17 by heading the wrong way up an exit ramp in Mahwah was finally stopped and arrested in Paramus after a high-speed chase Friday night, police said.

Andrea Rifkin, 57, of Philadelphia, "refused to open the door and the window had to be broken to remove her," Mahwah Police Chief James N. Batelli said.

Rifkin's car entered the southbound highway from the off ramp near the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and North Central Avenue around 9:30 p.m., the chief said.